Format:
1 online resource (301 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780822987789
Series Statement:
INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Scientific Bonanzas: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production | Eike-Christian Heine and Martin Meiske -- Chapter 1. A Subversive Bonanza: The Construction of the Panama Canal, the Biomedical and Life Sciences, and the Birth of Tropical Ecology | Paul S. Sutter -- Chapter 2. Exploring the Earth through Its Anthropogenic Scars: Geology and the Construction of the Panama Canal | Martin Meiske -- Chapter 3. Hydropower and Dams: An Entangled History of Academic Engineers, Local Knowledge, and Environmental Features, 1880-1930 | Christian Zumbrägel -- Chapter 4. Constructing Dams' Global Success Story: Knowledge Production, Staging, and Exchange in US American and Spanish Dam Building from the 1920s to the 1970s | Benjamin Brendel -- Chapter 5. Autobahn and Archaeology: Intersections of Infrastructure, Knowledge, and Ideology during the Third Reich | Eike-Christian Heine -- Chapter 6. "From the Stone Age into Socialism": Ethnographic Expertise and Sovietization at West Siberian Oil Deposits | Valentina Roxo -- Chapter 7. Slaves to the Yield: Scientific Bonanza and Irrigation Megalomania in the Kuban River Basin | Timm Schönfelder -- Chapter 8. NIMBY Bonanzas: European Infrastructures and Local Protest as System Building | Vincent Lagendijk -- Chapter 9. Detour along the Way: Obstacles and Knowledge Production at the Ayalon Highway | Neta Feniger and Roy Kozlovsky -- Chapter 10. Landing Strips and Penguins: Ecological Oppositions to the Scientific Exploration of Antarctica | Christian Kehrt -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
9780822946373
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Beyond the lab and the field Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022 9780822946373
Language:
English
Author information:
Meiske, Martin 1986-
Author information:
Heine, Eike-Christian
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